time of their march into Egypt. Our traveller took this opportunity to feek after the quarries mentioned by Pococke, and an antient convent of Cenobites, when, after an hour's march, he found the dreary remains of long cloifters and deferted cells, and, within the fquare court, a fmall church, built of fun-burnt bricks. But the quarries are not granite, nor, confequently, thofe from which the obeliks were fetched and all that is curious at them are the parts of floping roads by which the fione was conveyed to the fhips. Three days Eak wind in January had made the air as hot as in France in the dog-days, and was fucceeded by a North wind fo cold that in four hours it gave our traveller a fever. He took boat, for the fake of reft, and had just time to make a sketch of the immenfe ruins of Com-Ombos, the antient Crocodilopolis, and the quarries and tombs of Sifilis. In the latter are great fitting figures, in little chambers, adorned with hierogly phicks, traced on the rock, and terminated in ftucco, coloured, reprefenting always offerings of leaves, fruit, liquors, game, &c. The cielings, allo in ftucco, are adorned with ferolls (enroulements), painted in an exquifite tafte: the floor is cut into many tombs of juft dimenfions and the fame thape as the mummy cafes, and of the fame number as the carved figures. Thofe reprefenting men have little fquare beards, with hoods hanging behind their fhoulders; thofe of the women have the fame head-drefs, but hanging before over their naked throats. Thefe laft have commonly one arm put under that of the next figure, and in the other hand hold a lotus flower, the plant of Acheron, emblem of Death. The fingle figure of a man may reprefent an unmarried party, and the men and women may be hufbands and wives. (p. 178.) the animal fprung forward ten feet, and was loft in the Nile." (p. 174.)— He faw, four leagues before Efneh, a ruined gate and fix pillars of the portico and gallery of a temple, which muft have been that of Chnubis. Returning to Hermontis, he drew all that was curious; and, in tracing the fite of the antient city, obferved only temples; whence he infers that the whole nation and the kings were priestridden. Not a trace of the 100 gates of Thebes, which he paffed by again in a hurry. The ruins of Copthos, in the defart, famous in the fourth century for its trade with the Eat, ferve only to fhew the extent of its fite. Kench has fucceeded to Kous, as Kous fucceeded to Copthos, being fituated at the entrance of the defart, on the bank of the Nile; but it never was fo flourishing as the other two, fince the Indian trade has been turned into other channels. In the great quare at Kous is the top of a gate buried to the cymatium, engraved plate LXXX. On its South face is this Greek infeription, as reftored and read by Parquoi, dedicating it in a later period of the Ptolemies: Βασίλισσα Κλεοπάτρα και βασιλευς Πτο "Crocodiles are found at Efneh, and above the cataracts, but not at Syene. They seem to delight in particular pots, as from Tintyra to Ombos, and they abound moft near Hermontis. We faw three here (one, larger than the reft, was at leaft 26 feet long) all afleep, fuffered us to come within twenty paces, and gave us full time to view them; they looked like guns off their carriages. I fired at the largeft with ball, which bounded from the feales; GENT. MAG. September, 1802. Και Φιλοπαίρες και τα τέκνα Ηλίων Θεων λεμαίος Θεοι μεγαλοι Φιλόμηλορες μεγίσω και τοις συνναεις Θέοις *. Half a league from it, on a hill, are feen the foundations of a temple clear of all other ruins, drawn plate LV. with a French foldier and his horfe, fympathetically engaged in making water. (To be concluded in our next.) 170. Mifcellaneous Tranflations and Imitations of the minor Greek Poets. By J. B. S. Morritt, Efq. THE loves of Hero and Leander, from the Greek of Mufieus, the rape of Europa, from the Greek of Mofchus, the monody on the death of Bion, and lines on the evening-ftar, both by the latter, compofe the whole of this little volume, in about fifty pages, with engravings, from antique gems, prefixed to the three firft. They are rather imitations than tranflations; and it is difficult to difcover the meaning of the tranflator in a note p. 31. Mofchus compares a peacock's train *This feems to heling to Ptolemy Philometer, who married his fifter Cleopatra, who, after his death, married his brother Euergetes. See alfo p. 205. on the bafket of Europa to the fail of a fwift thip: νους Ταρσὸν ἀναπλώσας· ὡσεί τέ τις ὠκύαλος [cois. Χρυσοίο ταλάξοιο περίσκεπε χείλει τας Literally, "preading his feathers, and, like fome fwift-failing fhip, covered with them the edge of the golden bafket." Thus extended: "Expands his beauties like fome filken fail,\ That courts, on Summer feas, the flagging gale, Round all the brim the glittering wonder " rolled." The image here (favs the note) is different from the original, which it would be unneceflary to notice, except that the author might otherwife have been accufed of a mistake, when, for the fake of the poetry, he made an intentional deviation from the Greek pallage." A variation in the pointing of the original reprefents the tail fpread like a fail, or covering the basket of Europa like a fail. We fhall prefent our readers with the firft ftanza of the elegy on Bion, in the original and in the Della Crufca tranflation: *Αιλιά μοι συναχεῖτε νάπαι, καὶ Δώριον ὕδωρ, Καὶ ποταμοὶ, κλαίοιε τὸν ἱμερόεντα Βίωνα. Νῦν φιλά μοι μύρεσθε, καὶ ἄλσεα νῦν γοάοισθε αι *Ανθεα νῦν συβοῖσιν ἀποπνείοι]ε κορύμβοις. And tear drops ftand on every opening flower. Let Nature mourn as round his grave the O weaves the violet o'er the hallowed This, in the original, is, let the flowers exhale a melancholy [faint] (mell. b No a word of Nature in the Greek. • Instead of lofing all colour, Mofchus bids the rofe, neither drooping nor folitary, gluh deeper red. 4 Mofchus lays not a word of the violet, Nor of the hyacinth,decking Bion's tomb. 3 The Mufes' pride, the joy of life, is fled f. Begin, Sicilian Mule, the grief prolong, And feep in tears & the melancholy fong." 171. Letters on the prefent State of the Jewish Pour in the Metropolis, with Propofitions for ameliorating their Condition, by improving the Morals of the Youth of both Sexes, and by rendering their Labours ufful and productive, in a greater Degree, to themfelves and the Nation. THESE letters are addreffed, by Mr. Jofhua Vanhoven, of Bury-ftreet, St. Mary Axe, to Mr. Colquhoun, dated March 24, 1801. A petition was prefented to the Houfe of Commons for this purpofe, in confequence of the increate of population among the Jews who are natives of this kingdom. The meafure propofed will, when it receives the fanction of Parliament, comprehend a fyftem of jurifprudential ethicks of incalculable value in promoting the caufe of Vittue and Humanity, fince its object is to educate the young, who have hitherto been neglected, to useful induf try, reftore health to the fick, fo as to render them feful to themfelves and un for old age and infirmity; ill the community, and establish an afywhich bleflings are to be fecured to the Jewith community by a moderate afefinent under legiflative authority. The Jew, we are told, denied the privilege of exerciâng trade or manufac ture, is driven to the fhift of moneytranfactions; and the idea of Ufurer poorer fort praftite any petty knavery is united with that of Jew: while the to get bread. The conftrained and deplorable ftate of thefe poor gives ground for the continuance of the prejudice against them. The Jews have fome fort of agreement among themselves to maintain their own poor, which, till the laft 50 years, was no great evil. As the maintenance of their poor falls, like that of the Quakers, entirely on themfelves, it is here propofed to erect houses of industry and education for work for them, with hofpitals for the fick, fubject to their own ceremonial law, and to maintain fuch houfes by annual contributions from the fum paid to the general poor's rates by f How much more fim iy elegant is the original !—an excellent finger is dead. If the fong was written on paper or linen, it might be fteep'd; but how founds can be freeped we confess our inability, to comprehend. Jewish evils it remedies; the iniportant benefits it beftows; the number of growing vices it will check; the number of good, induftribus fubjects it will fend forth, who would otherwife have proved noxious to fociety; when all this is put into the fcale, how trifling and nugatory does a burthen of a moderate taxation appear as an objection! But, that no alarm on this fubject fhould arife, it will be requifite clearly to define, in the bill proposed to be brought into parliament, not only the maximum of the tax, but the manner how it is to be rated; and I trust the committee, whofe duty it will be to prepare the bill, will give this point its due and proper confideration." (p. 33.) Jewish houfekeepers, to be applied to "Abraham Goldimid, efq.” "Peculiarly circumftanced as the Jews are, and have ever been, on the face of God's earth, their prefervation and indelible identity, as a diftinct nation, is a phænomenon too wonderful not to imprefs the minds of all mankind with a conviction of a providential interference; and who will be hardy enough to imagine that he can, by any political regulation, deftroy the fingularity of the Jews, and aflimilate them with the inhabitants of any country, by encouraging the difregard of their religious cuftoms? I know that fomething like this has been thought of; nay, I may fay, propofed, by both Jews and Chriftians, but from very oppofite motives and different profpects." (p. 13.) Till this fomething like a glimmer of conviction, that the peculiar circumftances of the Jews as a diftinct nation, advances to a full perfuafion of the reafons of Providence for continuing them fo diftinct, and their temporary rejection in the Divine favour for their rejection of the Meffiah, in vain do we expect any change. in their prefent ftate, or any amalga mation of them into the general mais of people and nations. The curle of Canaan, and the rejection of the Jews, will continue infurmountable difficul ties to Humanity or Policy, wilfully. exerted to counteract the councils of Heaven, in favour of their own prepoffeffions. 172. Sketches and Hints of Church History and Theological Controversy; chiefly tranflated or abridged from modern foreign Writers. By John Erskine, D. D. one of the Minifters of Edinburgh. 2 vols. DR. E. is an humble imita or of Le Clerc's literary journals, in tranflating ог Sentiments of eminent English Churchmen and Diffenters, &c. on the fame. Sennibier's account of Calvin's treatment of Serveras, vindicating Calvin, and transferring the blame on the intolerance of the times, the fpirit of the laws and government of Geneva, and the idea of all feets at that time. Meuel's account of the Emperor Jofeph II. Dr. Bellamy's (MS.) obfervations on the origin of religious errors and the divinity of Chriti. Jonah vindicated by Mr. King, Morfels of Criticifin. Dr. Macqueen, late minifter of Kilmuir, on the fun ftanding till in the days of Jofhua, and going back on the dial of Ahoz; the latter alluded to by Herodotus, II. 141, in his account of Sothon, attacked by Sennacherib; and Merodachbaladan, King of Babylon's, enquiry after the latter event, which must have been obfer ved by his aftronomers. Inftances of the like kind in Pagan authors: Xenophanis in Plutarch de Placitu Philof. ed. Xvl. II. p. 901; Plato in Trinao; the Sun ftopping his chariot to behold the celebration of Diana's tettival in Delos; Callimachus' hymn ad Dianaus, l. 181, 182. See alfo Dr. G. Bonnet's difcourfes, Utreht, 1774, voll, I, difcourfes VII. VIII. IX. Bachiene's ftate of Popery and Proteliantifim in the Netherlands. The Doctor published a “ Reply to a printed Letter directed to him by A. C. [a Popih priest; in which the grofs Mifiepresentations, in faid Letter, of his late Sketches of Church Hiftory, as promoting the Defigns of the infamous Sect of the Illuminati, are confidered." Part of his firth and the greatel part of his fecond volume were intended to give unwary Proteftants what he apprehended a juft representation of modern Popery and Jefuitifm. Mr. Urban has often imparted proofs that the evil and treacherous fpirit of Po-, pery is not yet mitigated, and that' there is fill danger that falfe Religion may recover the ground fhe has loft. The Doctor cannot, therefore, but flatter himself that he will not difapprove the feebler efforts of another in the fame good caufe; though we confider the infinuations of Popery and Infidelity as the laft exertions of a defperate faction before the final overthrow of the dragon and the beaft and their adherents. Dr. E. is alfo editor of "Letters chiefly written for comforting those bereaved of Children or Friends; collected from Books and MSS. To the fecond Edition is added a Supplement not in the former." 17 Copies of Addreffes to Mr. Burdon, with the Names fubfcribed thereto, and of Letters, and other Proceedings, relative to bis late Election as one of the Representatives in Parliament for the County of Durham. "THE circunftances of the late election for the county of Durham are fo much out of the common course, fo honourable to the parties concerned, and fo ufeful an example to others, that it would fhew an indifference to public virtue if no care were taken to preferve them, while cafes of an oppofite nature are recorded with fo much induftry in our parliamentary hiftory. It was this idea that firit fuggefted the propriety of the following compilation. It alfo appeared an act of juftice to Mr. Burdon, to the electors, and to the publick, that the whole fhould be brought into one general view. In reviewing the conduct of Mr. Burdon, we are at a lofs which moft to admire, the humility of mind that fuggeted the intention of his retiring from fo honourable a ftation, the firumefs and confifiency with which he maintained that that intention against the folicitations of the most refpectable individuals, or the facility with which he abandoned it the moment it became his duty to do fo. Such beauty and harmony do we find in the conduct of men who act upon principle, and with a finglenefs of intention. The zeal and energy difplayed by the independent electors will alfo be feen with great admiration. They have afforded an example of the highest importance to the freedom and independence of elections. May their conduct be imitated as generally as it will be admired! What might not be expected from a Parliament generally elected by the mere influence of merit, uncontrouled by interest or power!" Addrefs of the editors to the reader. 174. Report of the Proceedings during the late contefted Election for the County of Middlefex; including the State of each Day's Poll, with the Addreffes and Speeches of Meffieurs Byng, Mainwaring, and Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. with many other interefling Particulars. 175. Confiderations on the late Elections for Wettminster and Middlefex; together with fome Facts relating to the House of Correction in Cold Bath Fields. Mr. "THE harangues of candidates are heard no more; the artifices of electioneering committees and agents are fufpended; the period of inflammation is patt; and the publiek have now a duty to difcharge, which their own fenfe will readily fuggeft-foberly to reflect whether they have liftened with conviction to unfupported accufations and calumnies; whether thofe for whofe fuccefs they have expressed the greateft anxiety are, in fact, worthy their confidence and choice. Fox's charges against the House of Commons, of fervile compliance with the will of the Court, are contrafted with the fame charges against Lord North, with whom he afterwards coalefced." The futile, metaphyfical excules which he made in the Houfe of Commons for his tergiverfation, is fill remembered by many Members of Parliament, and only contributed, in the opinion of moft, to render him "THE late election has contributed more unworthy of public trust and to a revival of public fpirit in England. confidence. His conduct at the WeftIn various parts of the country the mintier election, and his coy-fhynefs electors have been animated by the towards Mr. Graham, are then adnobleft principles and the purelt mo- verted to; and the conduct of Mr. Pitt, tives. Unfettered minds have boldly in adminiftration and fince his refignadeclared their fentiments by voting for tion, compared with it. The conduct independent men; men who are anxi- of Sir Francis Burdett at the late elecous to preferve, uncontaminated, the tion is next examined; his harangues rights and privileges of Englifhmen. against Mr. Juftice Mainwaring, the The County of Middlefex, fo well gaol and its keeper, and the countyknown for its attachment to liberty, magiftrates. Notwithfianding all his has again exhibited new fpecimens of exertions, and his committee, the proits former vigour. The ftruggle has bability of fuccets was decidedly in fabeen arduous. It has terminated glo- your of Mr. Mainwaring till within riously. It has difplayed a greater three days of clofing the poll, when number of independent voters than the content was decided by an extraor ever appeared before in that county; dinary manoeuvre. The original deand they have fignalized themfelves as fign of the Cold Bath Fields prifon, the friends of humanity, civil liberty, and its unfortunate mifapplication to and public happinets. They have da- the confinement of ftate-prifoners, and red to ftand forward as the advocates of prifoners before conviction, are next for humanity, amidst the molt uppa- ftated from official reports, which farralleled oppofition that power and af- ther atteft the humanity of Mr. Aris. fluence could produce. Conceiving Solitary cells were fanctioned by Mr. that the publick will be anxious to fee Howard, and, on his recommenda the whole of the proceedings concen- tion, by Government, which is parti trated into one point of view, the pub-cularly attentive to the reformation and lither has been affiduous to collect every thing that was important or interefting during the conteft. We fhall therefore introduce the proceedings by giving the letters of the different candidates in their regular fuccellion." good management of prifoners, which are open to the infpection of magiftrates. "The inflammatory arts and declamation employed to raife a popular delufion almoft to a degree of frenzy make the election of Brentford ex |